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WSJ’s Confusing Email Subscription Page
May 28th, 2008 |< p style=”float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 8pt; width: 160px”> The suspect: The confusing WSJ subscription page. Click to view larger. Wall Street Journal meant well when its staff created the email center page. I like that it has all the e-mail subscriptions on for managing. When a resource has multiple e-mail newsletters, listing all of [...]
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Twitter Barely Flitters
May 27th, 2008 |I haven’t bothered much with Twitter (not linking on purpose — it’s very sick) lately because it’s in a deep funk. Today, you couldn’t page through conversations, see “Twitter exceeded” messages, or have the annoying bird greeting you with another “It’s down” message. Many of us have submitted suggestion after suggestion (and plenty of obvious ones [...]
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Links: 2008-05-23
May 23rd, 2008 |Fifteen places you must put your keyword phrase and why [Link: Copywriting Maven] Powerful writing in 30 words or less e-book Why twitter matters Writer’s Digest Annual Best 101 Web Sites for Writers AngryJournalist: What not to do. [...]
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Blog 8th Birthday Celebration Prizes
May 21st, 2008 |Wow! Meryl is overwhelmed at the generosity of donated prizes and guest blog posts in celebration of this blog’s 8th birthday on June 1, 2008. Thank you for helping me (the blog) give her a little break. If only she would take a vacation OUTSIDE of Texas. That’s another battle. There’s still time to contribute a [...]
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Links: 2008-05-16
May 16th, 2008 |Small Business Administration Free Online Courses Language Is a Virus: Cures for writer’s block, poetry generator, character name generator, and many more cool tools for writers. 11 Irresistible Reasons to Write Everyday SOBCon08 recaps: Long list of entries related to SOBCon, event [...]
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Follow Your Company and Brand Online
May 12th, 2008 |If your PR and marketing folks aren’t tracking your company, brand, and competition online, they need to get up to speed to better do their jobs. If you play all of the roles, tracking your company and brand isn’t as time consuming as it sounds. Remember alert services, blogs, and social network sites. Many of these [...]
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Links: 2008-05-09
May 9th, 2008 |Memory Improvement Tips Top 10 PR Tips for Small Businesses Write with Authority and Inspire Trust The best time to submit news 8 violent truths about freelancing part one and part two 178 ways to improve [...]
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Stop the Graying of Sites Trend
May 7th, 2008 |The messages many sites send when they use gray text on a white background is, “We don’t want you to read our content,” “Our content isn’t worth your time,” and “We want you to struggle reading our content because we think black is boring.” #333333, #666666, #999999, and #cccccc (various shades of gray) are almost black, [...]
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How Lenovo Outdoes Apple with an Ad
May 6th, 2008 |I rarely check out videos because chances are high that it won’t have captions or subtitles. But I bit on this Lenovo-produced video comparing its ThinkPad X300 to the MacBook Air [link: Dave Winer]. It presents a powerful visual message without using words. But not one to let commercials sway me without research, I wondered how [...]
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Links: 2008-05-02
May 2nd, 2008 |10 Clever Ways to Wow Your Clients Are You Approaching Freelancing All Wrong? The Only 12 1/2 Writing Rules You’ll Ever Need poster. Should get this for my office. Actually have wall space. [Link: Deb Ng] Four Ways to Target Online Buyers [...]
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